Everything posted by TreeA10
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SRO (Senior Ranking Officer) at UPT
Had several Army hello guys as students in the T-38. As a group, they did well in the program but they all were former Warrant Officers and none were the SRO.
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SRO (Senior Ranking Officer) at UPT
Washed out a -130 Nav with an Article 15 as a going away present. Don't be a stupid ass douche nozzle.
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Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) Certificate
I think my record for logging non-flight flight time is 7 hours 17 minutes to fly from Tampa to Miami. Brake release to brake parked.
- Mexican Military incursion(s) into the United States
- Mexican Military incursion(s) into the United States
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Mass urinalysis at Dover AFB
Coincidence??? I think not.
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
I just didn't use email. As a part-timer, every time I showed up, I required a new password or they needed to re-map printers or something and it became a royal pain and waste of my time...so I quit checking and happily flew my ass off.. After about a year and half, some guy shows up at my door asking if I could please delete some stuff because it is clogging up their server. I had something in the neighborhood of 1500 emails.
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Electronic flight bags could boost operational safety, effectiveness
That map strap might work. I've got two kneeboards. One has a narrow 1-1 1/2 inch elastic strap and the other is 3-4 inches. Both have the clear strap which would go over the line-up card. The narrower elastic strap isn't as secure as the wider one and it wobbles around a bit. We carry a Hyperjuice battery at work. It is slightly bigger than a deck of cards and it will recharge an iPad twice.
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Classic Thread - Security Forces (SFS) Tales
They don't train those guys to exercise judgement. Years ago, I'm going through the crash school at Norton (yes, a long time ago) and I'm out for a run. I've run the perimeter of the base and was heading back to the Q's when a security police car passes me, cuts in front of me, and a dude jumps out with a shotgun and levels it at me. I am armed with a running tank top, shorts, and New Balance shoes. Idiot. I was not detained and allowed to go on my way shortly thereafter. In a heated discussion with the desk sergeant later, I was told somebody stole something from the BX. Lucky them, it I wanted it, it would be on the truck coming Tuesday.
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Electronic flight bags could boost operational safety, effectiveness
Got an iPad mini w/retina display in an Otterbox. At work, we use an iPad 2 with a RAM mount. The mount will hold the mini. For small plane flying (Garmin Pilot), I strap the Otterbox cover to my kneeboard and then clip the mini over the stap and into the cover.
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Let's bitch about the BX here!
Haven't stepped foot into the BX in a couple years. I would have a list of things I needed and the BX would not have them but, oddly enough, the items were always allegedly on a truck arriving on next Tuesday.
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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CFI (Certified Flight Instructor) info
After 30 years of flying, a MEL ATP and 12,000 hours a variety of jets large and small, I finally got my SEL in a C-172 via a Commercial Inst check last Saturday. Did the Figure 8 around pylons, chandelle, stalls, short field takeoff/landing, soft field takeoff/landing, power off 180 and normal takeoff/landing. Probably left something off that list. Was it perfect? No, but I passed. The check pilot wasn't expecting perfection, he was expecting safe. Flying small aircraft is dramatically different from the large jets we are used to. If you plan on carrying family and friends, I would highly recommend doing those things that will improve your understanding of how the aircraft performs. It doesn't take much weight or winds to start making large differences in how that thing flies. Adjusting my brain around those ideas took a little time and practice. That, and the fact I'm no longer sitting 15 feet off the ground in the flare.
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With Russia's $650 billion rearmament plan, the bear sharpens its teeth
And we certainly can't let them see the big board!
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
- Questions on the GI Bill (Tuition Aid)
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
Tree..
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Army vs Air Force flying
For the non-Jesus Nut crowd, what is this "Trucker Comm" of which you speak?
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Mustache March
Women can have Furry February and stop shaving legs, etc.
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The Foglesong Thread
Camouflage it and label it "Combat Mailbox."
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The Foglesong Thread
Not sure how I was lucky enough to avoid this ass clown but glad that did. Sucked to be you guys that fell under his reign.
- Webmail (home Outlook email) issues
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Good military/aviation books
"The Dream Machine" by Richard Whittle. Didn't really seem to be pro or con but certainly did cover Bell/Textron push for a tilt rotor since the 60s. Good look at how compromise affects design, i.e. the V-22's size was set by the amphib assault ship deck limits which was set by prior helos, not by best aero performance.
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Jalapeno Popcorn
Where in the process do you then add the jalapenos?
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"Cadillac" Health Care Plans and Obamacare
I still think the plan is to screw up the healthcare system to such a degree that the government will be the only entity that can wade into the mess and save something resembling healthcare thus creating a single payer system. Those that campaigned for the ACA said we needed to insure everybody yet there is still 15 million uninsured. They also said the current system was unacceptable and substandard yet are willing to delay the implementation for another year. We won a World War in less time and we put a man into space in less time that these guys had to develop a website and system that actually works yet they failed miserably despite the billions of dollars thrown at it. Government at its finest yet we have people who think we need more of it.